Political parties and democracy / general editor, Kay Lawson.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. The Americas / Kay Lawson and Jorge Lanzaro, volume editors -- volume 2. Europe / Kay Lawson, volume editor -- volume 3. Post-Soviet and Asian political parties / Baogang He, Anatoly Kulik, and Kay Lawson, volume editors -- volume 4. Africa and Oceania / Luc Sindjoun, Marian Simms, and Kay Lawson, volume editors -- volume 5. The Arab world / Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Kay Lawson, volume editors.

"In each volume, contributors explore the relationship between political parties and democracy (or democratization) in their nations, providing necessary historical, socioeconomic, and institutional context, as well as the details of contemporary political tensions. Contributors are distinguished indigenous scholars who have lived the truths they tell and are, thus, able to write with unique breadth, depth, and scope. They show the parties of their respective nations as they have developed through history and changing institutional structures, and they explain the balance of power among them{u2014}and between them and competing agencies of power{u2014}today." --Publisher.